Alleged Stillwater Estates burglar faces drug, gun charges

The continuing investigation into a burglar caught in a Stillwater Estates home's attic has yielded additional drug and gun charges.

The continuing investigation into a burglar caught in a Stillwater Estates home's attic has yielded additional drug and gun charges.

Kirson Vasquez-Lantiqua, 29, of Pocono Summit, already faces burglary charges after police found him on Jan. 16 holed up in the attic of a Laurel Road home in Pocono Summit.

Now, Pocono Mountain Regional Police said a search warrant at Vasquez-Lantiqua's home at 6299 Laurel Road turned up a baggie of cocaine power, additional bags for packaging drugs along with digital scales.

Police also found four guns, two of which they said were reported stolen from a nearby home.

Police also found jewelry, high-end electronics including laptop computers, iPads, iPods, a digital camera and disc jockey equipment valued at over $2,000.

Vasquez-Lantiqua was in his preliminary hearing Thursday on the burglary charges, and cops took the opportunity to arraign him on the new charges following the hearing.

He is in jail on the most recent charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine, receiving stolen property (firearms), receiving stolen property (electronics and jewelry) and other drug charges.

He is being held on the new charges on $50,000 bail. He faces a Feb. 7 preliminary hearing on the new charges.

On Jan. 16, Vasquez-Lantiqua was found in the attic of a home at 6298 Laurel Road after someone saw him break into the house.